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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,169, dated March 3, 1885.

Application filed November 23, 1583. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDBIOK BREMER- MAN, of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in fences, the object being to provide a strong, durable, and cheap fence which can be readily set up and taken down, conveniently trans ported from place to place, and will form an effective and safe obstruction to the passage of animals.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain features of. construction and combinations of parts, as will be fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a section of my fence and devices for attaching the same to a post, and Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is an edge view.

A A represent a series of pales or pickets provided with the horizontal grooves a on two opposite sides. These grooves a are made sufficiently wide and deep to allow the wire B to sink to a level with the surface of the pales. Each pale is provided with two or more pairs of grooves, a groove and its opposite constituting a pair. Furthermore, these pairs occupy the same relative positions on each pale. The pickets or pales are rectangular in crosssection, and the grooves a thereof are formed on the broad faces from one side edge to the other, for the purpose of forming comparatively broad rests for the wires. The grooves are no deeper than the thickness of therein it will rest flush with the outer surface of the picket. By making the grooves shallow the strength of the picket is not materially affected.

B represents two wires, or a single wire bent 'to form two branches, preferably galvanized or otherwise protected from oxidation, which alternately rest in the opposite grooves of a pale and cross each other, as shown in the drawings, each wire engaging alternately the opposite sides of the successive pales. Two or more longitudinal lines of these wires may be used, the number required depending upon the height and weight of the pales.

The several sections of fence are secured to posts 0, placed at proper intervals, by means of the metal straps D, provided with a suitable number of perforations, (1, adapted to receive nails, screws, or bolts, these straps being secured to the fence by loops E, formed in the ends of the several lines of wires which pass through one of the perforations d in the said metal straps. These fastening-straps and loops to which they are attached form hinges upon which any short section can be swung, thus forming a convenient gate. The pales A are held against vertical displacement by the grooves a, and against longitudinal displacement by the crossing of the wires B. In the construction herein set forth it will be noticed that the wires are not twisted or sufliciently bent to break the galvanizing, while the grooves in which the wires are laid serve not only to keep the pales from sliding up and" down, but at the same time form a bracing system which makes the structure vertically very rigid.

For purposesof transportation the sections of the fence can be rolled into bundles of suit able size to be readily handled.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a fence, the combination, with a series of pales provided with two or more sets of transverse grooves, of two or more horizontal lines of wire embracing the pales in the groove, and crossing between each two successive pales and terminating in loops, and perforated straps loosely secured in the loops, substantially as setforth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDRICK BREMERMAN.

\Vitnesses:

PAUL J. PELZ, Josnrrr W. N ICHOL. 

